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It’s Different Now

THE DETAILS:Friday Fictioneers: 1 picture, 100 words, scores of people from around the world sharing their creativity and vision. Feel welcome to join in; visit Rochelle Wisoff-Fields HEREto find out how.

THE PROMPT:
This week’s photo prompt courtesy of, and copyright by, J. Hardy Carroll, who can be found HERE.

THE STORY:

It’s Different Now

I enjoy exploring abandoned buildings. Houses, barns, garages, makes no difference to me. Abandoned buildings are great places to pretend to be an adventurer and, with camera in hand, to let my creativity fly free.

When I was young these abandoned treasures were everywhere, but there aren’t many of them around nowadays. They’re torn down and redeveloped quickly and fences keep people out.

It’s different today.

Today when I play adventurer and take pictures in broken-down structures I think of Israel, New York, Boston, Paris, Iraq and Afghanistan. And now Manchester.

Different ruins. Different destruction. Different abandonment.

Different reality.

– 99 words. One word left over in memory of the victims of terrorism –

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Thanks, Lynn. In truth I almost deleted this and started over because how could I leave out Orlando and San Bernadino and right here in St. Cloud, Minnesota? And the thought that a person could probably list 100 cities was almost overwhelmingly sad. Thanks for reading and commenting!

You’re right in that so many more could be listed. Places of destruction not only through attacks, but through war and conflict. So many places could go onto your list Syria, Palestine, Burma, Sudan…
Abandoned places are so hauntingly intriguing. You can almost feel the past echoing in its ruins. Lovely POV.